Hugo sutro and ltjdwig suteo



(ModeL) H. & L. SUTRO.

Tubular Slide for Watch Guards.

No. 237,782. Patented Feb. 15,1881.

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HUGO SUTBO AND LUDWIG SUTRO, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TUBULAR SLIDE FOR WATCH-GUARDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 237,782, dated February15, 1881.

Application filed December 17, 1880. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HUGO SUTRO and Lnnwie SUTno, of the city, county,and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Tubular Slides for Watch-Guards, Trimmings, and like purposes; and wedo hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawin gs,which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to an improved slide for watch-guards and otheranalogous articles, when made from cord, braid, or other similarflexible material.

The improvement consists in making the slides of paper or other pliablematerial of suitable dimensions, and then covering the same with anetting woven thereon,from thread or from other analogous material, andwhich we choose to call quill-slides, or else in cutting tubular-wovenbraid or cord into any desired length, so as to form flexible slides,the object being to provide an ornamental and cheaper slide than hasbeen heretofore done, and also to make a slide which will adapt itself,on account of its flexibility, to the various styles or forms of braid.

Heretofore slides for the purposes mentioned have been made from woodmolds, and the covering Woven thereon, or else have been crocheted byhand without any molds. The holes through such wooden molds are twosmall for double cords or braids to slide or shift easily and smoothlythrough them. If the cord is round in form and forced through the holedouble, it will become flattened and worn in appearance, and if flatbraid is forced through the round hole it will become distorted, and inboth cases the slides will not move easily on the braid or cord. If, onthe other hand, the hole is made large enough for the cord or braid topass through easily, so as to retain their forms, the slides mustnecessarily be too bulky and out of due proportion to the cord or braidto be ornamental in appearance, and therefore practically useless. Thehole in the wood slide, which may be of any design externally, is alwaysmade round v as it would be too expensive to adapt the shape of thehole, in all cases, to the shape of the val rious kinds of braid orcord; besides, if the hole was shaped according to the form of the braidor cord, the wooden molds would also have to be shaped according to theshape of the hole, so that they may not be too thin in some places,which would be a very expensive process, or else they would have to bemade of some much harder material than pine wood, which is now whollyused for that purpose on account of its cheapness. Moreover, the hole inthe wooden molds, through which the cord or braid passes, is rough andinjures the fiber. The slides crocheted by hand, on the other hand, arevery expensive and very slowly made, and are clumsy and ungainly inappearance.

Now, to obviate the defects, as above described, in the wooden slides,we make them of paper and cover them in a suitable manner; and in placeof the slides worked by hand We cut tubular braid into suitable lengths,and then tuck in the ends so that they will not unravel.

The advantages which the paper slide possesses over those made from woodare, first, the shells of the paper slides are always of uniformthickness, regardless of the shape or size of the hole through which thecord or braid passes; secondly, the inner part presents a uniform andsmooth surface, which will not wear the cord and braid, as is done bythe wooden slide; thirdly, on account of the flexibility of the materialit will, though made in a cylindrical form, adapt itself to any form ofcord or braid which may be passed through, or, in other words, the slidewill conform to the style of cord or braid to be used, which it cannotdo when made from wood; fourthly, it is neater in appearancewhen appliedto the cord or braid than one made from wood; flfthly, on account oftheir pliability they cannot be broken, as they are made very strong bybeing spun over with silk, and, also, their circumference being muchless than that of the wood slide, it will take less silk to cover them,in consequence of which, and the paper slide being much cheaper than thewooden mold, these quill-slides are less expensive as an article ofmanufacture than those made from wood.

The advantages of the flexible tubular slides out from tubular braidover the handmade slides are that they are much cheaper, beingmachine-made, and neater in appearance.

Figure l is a view of the paper slide. Fig. 2 is a View of the paperslide with two cords passing through it. Fig. 3 is a View of the slidewith two flat braids passing through it. Fig. 4 is a cross-section ofFig. 2, showing the two cords side by side. Fig. 5 is a crosssection ofFig. 3, showing the two flat braids lying one upon the other withoutfolding over. Fig. 6 is a view of a wooden slide as now used. Fi 7 is anend View, showing the distortion of two cords while passing through thehole. Fig. 8 is an end view, representing the appear ance of two braidswhile passing through the slides.

Like letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all of thefigures.

A in Fig. 1 represents a paper slide to be used upon cord or braid orother similar articles.

B B in Fi 2 represents a double cord passing through the paper slide A.

G O in Fig. represents a flat braid passing through the paper slide A.

In. the cross-section, Fig. +1, the slide A is represented as conformingwith or to the double cords B B, the cords retaining their shape, whilethe slide, on account of its flexibility, is made to conform thereto,and also a still greater conformation is shown in Fig. 5, where a doublebraid is shown in crosssection.

Fig. 6 represents the old style of wooden slide D.

Fig. 7 represents across-section of the same, with two cords, B B,passing through the round hole. These cords are necessarily distorted.

Fig. 8 is a cross-section of Fi 6, representin g the distortion orcompressing of two braids, O O,when drawn through the wooden slide D.

Vhat we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. Asa new article of manufacture, the hereiii-described slide, consisting ofpaper or other pliable material made into cylinders of suit abledimensions and spun or covered with sill: or other similar material, forthe purposes herein specified.

2. The hereimdescribed flexible tubular slide made of woven tubular cordor braid.

HUGO SUJLRO. LUDWVIG SUTRO.

Witnesses:

disc. '1. FAGA'N, Tnos. G. LEA'VENS.

